Access and Borrowing: Borrowing

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Loan Periods

Most library materials check out for 28 days to undergraduates, alumni, staff and courtesy users, 90 days to graduate students and 365 days to faculty members. There areexceptionsat each branch. Reference items and most course reserve items (loan periods vary) are available for use inside the library.

Loan Period Exceptions

Reference books and reference CD-ROMs, censuses, film reels, folios, fragile/rare books, some government publications (all governments DVDs and maps), items from the Legislative Collection, and microforms are available for use inside the library.

Items from the Leisure and Travel Collections, DVDs, video CDs and videotapes check out for 14 days and can be renewed up to 2 times. Overdue fines are 30¢ per day.

Fragile/Rare books, reference books and reference CD-ROMs are available for use inside the library. Request microforms from the Annex to use inside the Peabody or Central libraries with the necessary readers.

Periodicals check out for 28 days to all users.

Doctor of Ministry papers, fragile/rare books, reference books and reference CD-ROMs are available for use inside the library. Microforms not in the Annex are available to use inside the Central library with the necessary readers.

Fragile/Rare books, government publications,reference books and tests are available for use inside the library. Request microforms from the Annex to use inside the Central library with the necessary readers.

DVDs and videotapescheck out for 14 days and can be renewed up to 2 times. Overdue fines are 30¢ per day.

Fragile/Rare books, reference books and reference CD-ROMs are available for use inside the library. Request microforms from the Annex to use inside the Central library with the necessary readers.﻿

New books check out for 21 days.

Blair School of Music recordings, fragile/rare items, reference items, and 78 rpm discs are available for use inside the library.

Microforms can be requested from the Annex to use inside the Central library with the necessary readers.

Fragile/Rare books and reference books are available for use inside the library. Request microforms from the Annex to use inside the Central library with the necessary readers.

Tests check out only to graduate students and faculty for 7 days and 180 days respectively.

Folios, fragile/rare books, government maps,reference books and reference CD-ROMs are available for use inside the library. Request microforms from the Annex to use inside the Central library with the necessary readers.

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